Shipbuilders covet promise of new spirit for Tasmania
by
Rob McKay
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last modified
Feb 26, 2010 04:09 PM
AUSTRALIA’S major shipbuilders are circling, just in case Tasmanian Labor premier David Bartlett is re-elected and holds good on his pre-election pledge to replace TT-Line’s Spirit of Tasmania I and II in 2014.
Both local firm Incat and Western Australian rival Austal put their hands up after Mr Bartlett said the government would look at whether replacement monohull Bass Strait ferries could be built on the island by 2014. This would be up...
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